Way too many people in here speaking for “Europe”. I live in Europe as well, and here tipping at a restaurant or a delivery driver is 100% expected. It isn’t usually as much as the US, but tipping exists here as well.
Also, when in Rome… plenty of people here get upset at Americans for not following cultural norms, seems fair to get upset at people visiting America for not doing the same.
In Belgium, you pay over the internet before the order is placed. There isn’t a way to tip unless you throw some coins when they deliver it. Which nobody does.
Delivery drivers get paid by the company, not the customers.
We tip if we go out for a family meal and the service is good, which it almost always is. If it’s not, then no tip. The wage is, by law, nearly $17 an hour, so they get paid regardless, and if they do a good job, they get more. I was a waiter in Edinburgh, and it was clear to me that the more attentive I was, the better chances I had of a tip. It was the incentive. I was a student at the time and had other student colleagues who brought their moods to the table and were annoyed when they got little to no tip.
However, if I was in the US where they basically need the tips to earn a living wage then I’d always tip.
Way too many people in here speaking for “Europe”. I live in Europe as well, and here tipping at a restaurant or a delivery driver is 100% expected. It isn’t usually as much as the US, but tipping exists here as well.
Also, when in Rome… plenty of people here get upset at Americans for not following cultural norms, seems fair to get upset at people visiting America for not doing the same.
What country are you speaking of?
In Belgium, you pay over the internet before the order is placed. There isn’t a way to tip unless you throw some coins when they deliver it. Which nobody does.
Delivery drivers get paid by the company, not the customers.
It’s not unknown to have a lill’ jar at the countertop for tipping though. But yeah it’s definitively not the obnoxious crap like in the US.
We tip if we go out for a family meal and the service is good, which it almost always is. If it’s not, then no tip. The wage is, by law, nearly $17 an hour, so they get paid regardless, and if they do a good job, they get more. I was a waiter in Edinburgh, and it was clear to me that the more attentive I was, the better chances I had of a tip. It was the incentive. I was a student at the time and had other student colleagues who brought their moods to the table and were annoyed when they got little to no tip.
However, if I was in the US where they basically need the tips to earn a living wage then I’d always tip.